Shigeru Ogura

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsugu Fujii

Kenji and Chuko travel to Hokkaido as migrant workers and enlist as miners under the strict leadership of Guzuyasu. On the boat journey to Hokkaido,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata

Director Teruo Ishi's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an unique...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Utsui

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Kurishima

Kyôko Yashiro's film debut for Shintoho.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tadao Takashima

Chie, who's chosen as 'Ms. Woman Diver', and her friend Yuki, have been missing for several days after they left for Tokyo to be interviewed by a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Michiko Maeda

Gosho’s most celebrated film both in Japan and the West, Where Chimneys Are Seen is perhaps the most compelling example of his concern for, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Masayuki Mori

1957 crime film directed by Toshio Shimura for Shintoho.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eiji Wakasugi

Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san"...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Uehara

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tadao Takashima

Japanese film.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Tadao Takashima

Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tadao Takashima

Japanese film about motorcycle racing.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Tazaki

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gen Funabashi

Early pinku.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shoji Nakayama

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Back in Japan, he is obsessed by her memory and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Japanese mystery film.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ken Utsui

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Achako Hanabishi

A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roppa Furukawa

Kodakara Sodo (The Treasure That Is Children) is a 1935 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Torajiro Saito....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yaeko Izumo

Genre: History

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jusaburo Bando

Lost silent film

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Considered to be a lost film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journaist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sumiko Kurishima

A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takeshi Sakamoto

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Sō Yamamura

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Okada

If you throw this child away

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Komuparu Minamisato

Fictionalized retelling of the life of a Geisha poisoner.

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Cast: Katsuko Wakasugi

Short feature by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Fujinami

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroko Kawasaki

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

Genre:

Cast: Bandō Jusaburō III

1957 crime film

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Yanaka. Yoshie, the sign girl of the coffee shop,...

Genre:

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

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Cast: Shozaburo Abe

A man working in a museum steals the Emperor's hat on display.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Minoru Chiaki

Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

Comedy-horror film by Masaki Môri.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Utsui

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomio Aoki